Monthly Archives: April 2012

Saturday turned out a fine day and after Brown Eyes had a few busy hours among the cattle and the lambs, with the assistance of his little sister, he drew out the small buggy into the yard and the three … Continue reading →

Last Sunday when I entered the kirk porch and an elder threw open a half door with the flourishing air of giving me generous admittance, my feet hesitated involuntarily. Would there be room for me to get through? Then my … Continue reading →

The Scotch lass never goes on her knees to the task of washing a flagged floor. (We are picturing a farm kitchen, dairy, boiler-house, etc., in my part of Scotland) She takes a sack, or half a sack, dips it … Continue reading →

A sucking pig is at its prime for eating at about three weeks old. It should be dressed and prepared for the spit or the oven the day that it is killed as the delicacy of the meat depends upon … Continue reading →

There is talk of a new volume of the letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, which I should very much like to read; for these letters are said to be certain which were suppressed by Froude (James Anthony Froude, Carlyle’s biographer) … Continue reading →

Once in a while something outside our own little lives happens which gives the whole thinking world a shock. Such is the loss of the Titanic (passenger liner which sank with the loss of 1500 lives on April 14). We … Continue reading →

The children have amused themselves all day digging holes in the sand in which to bury imaginary lambs. They were greatly impressed with the sight of a dead lamb and its burial and never tire of making graves for bits … Continue reading →

“Ca’ the yowes tae the knowes. Ca’ them whaur the burnie rowes… My bonnie dearie…” My singing, alas goes from me but all day I have been lilting that old song, almost as if I were 20 again when everything … Continue reading →

On churning days the children are exceedingly busy helping — so they fancy — to carry pails of buttermilk, scrub dishes etc. The golden butter is a sore temptation. Many times have their fingers to be slapped before they learn … Continue reading →